Senior Fundraising Relationship Manager – Regional

Job Description

About the Company

Inkomoko supports entrepreneurs to grow their businesses in order to improve livelihoods, create jobs, and help communities thrive.

Founded in 2012, Inkomoko has worked with more than 60,000 entrepreneurs across East Africa, including thousands of refugee entrepreneurs.  Inkomoko provides a combination of training, consulting, access to finance, and market-level systems change. We are the largest lender to refugee entrepreneurs in Africa.

Inkomoko has 650+ staff in 40 offices across Rwanda, Kenya, Ethiopia, and South Sudan. Through Inkomoko’s 2030 strategic plan, we are adding 4 additional countries to improve the lives of more than 7.6M people by serving more than 550,000 entrepreneurs and investing $150M into refugee & host communities across Africa.

Company Values

All staff at Inkomoko are connected to a shared set of organisational values:

• Purpose: be solutions-oriented, produce high-quality work, be a global leader.
• Achievement: push yourself to reach beyond what you previously thought possible.
• Improvement: be humble, engage in continuous growth through open & accurate feedback.
• Bravery: willing to take risks, create a safe space for others, be compassionate, inclusive.
• We Eat Goat: we celebrate success and support each other in hard times. We do this work together in the spirit of turikumwe, tuko pamoja, abren nen, urang babarengan.

Inkomoko reflects the communities we serve.  Displaced persons and women are strongly encouraged to apply.

About the Opportunity

This position plays a critical role in our growth and sustainability by overseeing our reporting and communications to key funder partners who support our mission. This role requires a strategic thinker to work closely with other members of the organisation – including senior leadership – as well as current and future funders, and other organisations in the community. Regular travel to Inkomoko’s countries of operation will be required. Inkomoko is unable to sponsor work visas for this position.

Responsibilities

Strategy and People Management

• Help chart the future direction of the Development team by shaping our 2030 strategy, driving towards its implementation, and building out our existing funder reporting function as Inkomoko scales and increases the number of funders we partner with
• Manage a growing team of program managers and report writers, with particular focus on building internal capacity around narrative reporting and financial analysis
• Build systems that streamline reporting and increasingly automate the management of our external relationships, such as through a CRM (eg Salesforce) and program management (eg Asana)

Report Writing

• Own the preparation of funder narrative reports ranging from detailed biannual narratives, to short monthly updates and periodic PPT presentations
• Oversee the development of financial reports by working closely with our Finance team to prepare budget vs actuals analysis
• Maintain accurate and up to date program status and impact tracking to deliver relevant activity updates that can be used at short notice
• Regularly visit Inkomoko program sites across countries to stay abreast of key developments and gather interesting insights into the work being done

Relationship Management & Communications

• Organise deeply immersive and experiential learning visits for funders to build their fluency in Inkomoko’s work and strengthen our relationships with them
• Oversee the timely production of Inkomoko’s newsletters, annual report and other collateral materials, including an up-to-date website
• Work with Comms to ensure social media content is relevant for our funder audiences
• Attend conferences and external stakeholder events/meetings to represent Inkomoko and advocate for the work we do

Internal Coordination

• Work closely with program teams to help ensure program delivery happens in accordance with funder agreements in terms of timelines, deliverables, milestones, and budgets, and flag any delays or deviations from plans to senior leadership
• Align openly and regularly on funder updates with internal teams so that everyone is clear on external progress reporting
• Collaborate with the Monitoring & Evaluation team to plan for impact studies that reflect the metrics we are required to report on to our funders

Minimum Qualifications

Inkomoko has found that our happiest and most effective colleagues are proactive, resourceful, self-motivated, trustworthy, and accountable. They are go-getters with a can-do attitude, who support their teammates with sincerity. No task is too small and above all, they are humble and willing to give and receive feedback.

For this role, the successful candidate will have these qualities in spades. Additional qualifications and skills must include:

• Excellent communicator in spoken and written English, additional languages preferred
• 8+ yrs experience donor management and fundraising
• Experience in grant reporting, building teams, and developing reporting strategies
• Strong project management skills with a particular focus on budgeting and financial reporting
• Experience planning and leading strategic initiatives
• Proven success in project coordination
• Deep experience with data and financial analysis
• Demonstrated experience and results in nonprofit fundraising and reporting
• Strong computer skills in MS-Office and G-Suite

What You’ll Get

This role is a tremendous opportunity to work in a high-growth, mission-driven organisation. Our compensation includes both a great culture and a competitive market-based remuneration, including:

• Supportive and inclusive company culture, with a deep investment in your learning and growth, and a commitment to equity and diversity
• Opportunity to work with a talented, passionate, and committed team of professionals across the region
• Ability to make a significant social impact and contribute to economic growth
• Competitive salary, and potential KPI-based bonus
• Favourable policies like health insurance, staff savings program, parental leave, and sabbatical program

How to Apply

If you’re excited about this role, please submit your application through the: application portal. Tell us about what you’ll bring to this growing company.

DEADLINE:  Open until filled.  Please apply as soon as possible. 

Inkomoko is committed to justice, diversity, equity and inclusion.  As we seek to reflect the communities we serve, refugees and women are strongly encouraged to apply. As a company, we have policies that ensure fair treatment in the application process.

NB: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Employment is conditional upon successful background checks and other verification as needed.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and background screening checks. Inkomoko also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme, In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual misconduct, fraud, or abuse. By applying, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.